Top European Institutions in Molecular Biology

Top European Institutions in Molecular Biology
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-December 2009
Euro rank	World Rank	Institution	Papers	Citations	Citations per paper
1	2	European Molecular Biology Lab	1,443	96,889	67.14
2	20	Medical Research Council, UK	1,351	61,989	45.88
3	25	University of Oxford	2,935	131,066	44.66
4		University of Geneva	1,177	51,443	43.71
5	30	Max Planck Society	4,840	203,153	41.97
6	32	University of Cambridge	2,877	119,973	41.70
7	49	University College London	2,822	101,248	35.88
8	50	German Cancer Research Center	1,048	37,494	35.78
9	51	University of Edinburgh	1,583	56,219	35.51
10	56	Pasteur Institute	1,453	50,286	34.61
11	63	University of Munich	1,637	51,614	31.53
12	64	Karolinska Institute	1,688	52,562	31.14
13	65	University of Utrecht	1,160	36,014	31.05
14	66	Imperial College London	1,595	49,409	30.98
15	68	CNRS, France	2,925	89,290	30.53
16	69	University of Helsinki	1,492	45,178	30.28
17	75	King’s College London	1,346	39,432	29.30
18	77	University of Freiburg	1,000	,863	.86
19	79	University of Heidelberg	1,6	35,016	.44
20	80	University of Zurich	1,363	37,150	.26
21	81	University of Manchester	1,217	32,742	26.90
22	87	Leiden University	1,205	30,807	25.57
23	88	University of Rome La Sapienza	1,067	,3	25.56
24	89	INRA, France	1,186	30,313	25.56
25	90	University of Uppsala	1,128	28,548	25.31
26	93	University of Milan	1,082	26,048	24.07
	94	University of Copenhagen	1,074	25,797	24.02
28	98	CSIC, Spain	1,239	,195	21.95
29	100	INSERM, France	1,552	32,173	20.73
30	102	CNR, Italy	1,412	26,797	18.98

The data above were extracted from the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters. This database, currently covering the period January 1999 through December 2009, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and the Thomson Reuters journal-to-category field-definition scheme. Individual papers published in influential multidisciplinary journals such as Nature and Science are also assigned to their appropriate fields.

Both articles tabulated and their citation counts are for the period indicated. Naturally, institutions publishing large numbers of papers have a greater likelihood of collecting more citations than those publishing fewer papers. This ranking is by citations per paper (impact) for European institutions that published 1,000 or more papers in molecular biology during the period. For papers with multiple institutional addresses, each institution receives full, not fractional, citation credit. Essential Science Indicators lists institutions ranked in the top 1 per cent for a field over a given period, based on total citations.

For the current version, 428 institutions are listed in the field of molecular biology, meaning that a total of 42,800 institutions were surveyed to obtain these results. Of the 428, 107 institutions published 1,000 or more papers. The ranking by citation impact seeks to reveal heavy hitters based on per-paper influence, not mere output or total citations. Also appearing is the world rank by impact for each of these European universities or research institutions.

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